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Robo‐compliance in Australian employment services Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-21 Simone Casey
Since the late 1990s, Australia's employment services have enforced mutual obligation compliance as part of a transition to a disciplinary regime of conditional welfare. In recent years, the digitisation of employment services has extended the disciplinary approach to self‐activation. Notably, self‐activation extends mutual obligation requirements so that online reporting is a condition of benefit
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Beyond administrative burden: Activation and administrative harm Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-21 Michael McGann, Sarah Ball
Within recent public policy and administration scholarship, there has been a growing focus on the concept of “administrative burden” to describe the learning, compliance and psychological costs incurred by citizens when trying to access services and exercise social and political rights. Specifically, in the context of activation and welfare‐to‐work programmes, scholars have highlighted the effects
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A love letter to Black people or anti‐white propaganda? Black (non‐Indigenous) people reflections on the role of the #BlackLivesMatter movement in Australia Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Kathomi Gatwiri, Marcelle Townsend‐Cross
#BlackLivesMatter activism is a contemporaneous manifestation of a centuries‐old resistance against anti‐Black racism. This paper analyses diverse perceptions about the #BlackLivesMatter movement's purpose, significance and potential utility in the Australian context. Our analysis of the #BlackLivesMatter highlights how the movement harnessed the power of social media to deploy counternarratives to
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Mentors and sponsors: Making a difference for racially and culturally minoritised academics in Australian universities Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-02 Kathomi Gatwiri, Zoë Krupka, Samara James
Mentorship and sponsorships play a significant role in faculty experiences, career trajectories, well‐being and academic success in higher education. In this study, 23 racially and culturally minoritised (RACM) academics were interviewed about their experiences working in Australian universities, and all spoke about the key importance of their mentoring experiences. Mentorship was understood as both
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Considering the animating ethos of designing digital first unemployment services: On the motivation of others Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-02 Ray Griffin, Antoinette Jordan, Aisling Tuite
This paper explores the animating ethos of digital unemployment services. Unlike human‐to‐human services, where the intention of policy is normally mediated by professionals, digital services are fully designed in the policy imagination. As a result, it is a pressing issue to understand the ethos that animates their development. To address this, we report on design thinking focus groups undertaken
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Promoting the social in psychosocial recovery: Interviews with Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme participants Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Joy Roberts, Victoria Stewart, Maddy Slattery
Social connection is a central element in mental health recovery and has been found to have a significant impact on the health and well‐being of individuals. This study examines the experiences of social connectedness for people accessing NDIS support for psychosocial disability. Interviews were conducted with eight NDIS participants. The study's findings suggest that people with psychosocial disabilities
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Intermittent urgency and states of deferral—Or, how many houses for a mine? Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Liam Grealy, Kirsty Howey, Tess Lea
This paper traces the temporal tactics of continually renewed coloniality—where some impasses are made to appear insurmountable while others demand swift solutions—in relation to housing and mining at Borroloola in Australia's Northern Territory. Distinct policy and regulatory regimes encourage analyses that set housing and mining apart. Yet together they signal the settler state's simultaneous remedial
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Implementing the HEALing Matters program in residential out‐of‐home care: Evaluation of carers' commitment to promoting healthy lifestyle behaviours Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Rachael Cox (nee Green), Kostas Hatzikiriakidis, Ruby Tate, Lauren Bruce, Madelaine Smales, Addison Crawford‐Tagliaferro, Luke Patitsas, Emma Galvin, Helen Skouteris
HEALing Matters is an online professional development training program being implemented across the Victorian out‐of‐home care sector. HEALing Matters uses a trauma‐informed philosophy to guide carers' understanding of the link between young people's healthy lifestyle behaviours and improved physical and psychosocial outcomes. This article reports the findings of a qualitative evaluation, which sought
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How we achieved “the most significant Australian child welfare reform in a generation” Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Paul McDonald
In Australia, on any given day, about 45,000 children and youth aged 0–17 (about 1 per cent of Australian youth) are in the care of the state, often cared for through delegation‐funded child welfare organisations. Many of these children are in out‐of‐home care of such organisations for brief periods of time, but a substantial number remain in care until their mandatory emancipation. About 3600 youth
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The language of belonging: The role of symbolic language in shaping social identity and public perceptions of police gender targets Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Katelyn Davenport‐Klunder, Kelly Hine, Robert Fleet
Gender‐targeted recruitment in policing has elicited varied public responses. This study explores public sentiment toward policing gender targets using a symbolic interactionist and social identity approach. A sentiment analysis was conducted on 5447 comments extracted from a Facebook recruitment campaign targeting women. The study revealed a nearly equal distribution of positive and negative language
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Work incentives in Australia: The distribution of effective marginal tax rates for working‐age Australians in 2023 Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-27 Ben Phillips
Effective marginal tax rates are of interest to policymakers due to the concern that high rates lead to disincentives to work, particularly for secondary earners in couple families and single parents who pay personal income tax and lose government welfare payments as their private income increases. Hypothetical models of the tax and welfare system demonstrate the possibility of high effective marginal
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Cryptocurrencies: Who is vulnerable and what are the vulnerabilities? Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-21 Levon Blue, Congcong Xing, Thu Pham
Australians are embracing new forms of digital finance products and services, which includes purchasing cryptocurrencies and non‐fungible tokens (NFTs). There has been an increase in investment scams associated with cryptocurrencies. In this article, we sought to understand from cryptocurrency and NFT investors, who is vulnerable and what vulnerabilities exist. We surveyed 745 Australians aged 18 and
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Digital futures in mind: Why lived experience collaboration must guide digital mental health technologies Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Kellie Gilbert, Ian Muchamore, Simon Katterl, Hayley Purdon, Andy Allen, Ingrid Ozols, Piers Gooding
Digital mental health technologies and services are here. More are coming. Such technologies and services present both risks and opportunities. At their best, they may enhance the most humane, communal and caring parts of our social systems and communities. At their worst, they may reinforce reductionist approaches to distress and crisis, increase surveillance and control, as well as extracting data
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Addressing employment barriers for humanitarian migrants: Perspectives from settlement services Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Andre M. N. Renzaho, Kerry Woodward, Michael Polonsky, Julianne Abood, Julie Green
This research seeks to understand the challenges faced by settlement service providers (SSPs) in assisting humanitarian migrants to secure appropriate employment. In‐depth interviews with 26 SSPs identified that current impediments to facilitating humanitarian migrants' employment related to employment support programmes; settlement service partnerships; cultural appropriateness of services; employment
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Reflections on making public policy (1977–1996) Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Brian Howe
Brian Howe was elected to the federal Parliament in 1977 as the Labor Member for Batman (now Cooper). Following the election of the Hawke Government in 1983 until his retirement from politics in 1996, Howe held several key social policy portfolios in both the Hawke and Keating Labor Governments, and was Deputy Prime Minister from 1991 to 1995. As a politician, Howe held a strong commitment to policy
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“You're on your own, kid”: A critical analysis of Australian universities' international student mental health strategies Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Michelle Peterie, Gaby Ramia, Alex Broom, Isabella Choi, Matthew Brett, Leah Williams Veazey
Mental ill‐health is a serious and growing problem among university students in Australia. Within this cohort, international students are particularly vulnerable. International students in Australia have fewer social rights than domestic students and are at elevated risk of social isolation, exploitation in employment, precarious housing, financial insecurity, and racism and discrimination. When mental
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The Aspire Social Impact Bond: How social impact bond financing can promote positive social and economic outcomes Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Veronica Coram, Selina Tually, Leanne Lester, Michael Kyron, Paul Flatau, Ian Goodwin‐Smith
Financing human service delivery through social impact bonds (SIBs) is the subject of some critical commentary in the academic literature, but this tends to be largely theoretical rather than empirically based. This paper presents empirical evidence of how SIB financing can promote positive social and economic outcomes for governments, not‐for‐profit providers, individual service beneficiaries and
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Introducing Indigenist Critical Policy Analysis: A rights‐based approach to analysing public policies and processes Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Natalie Bryant
Institutional racism within Australia, grounded in the country's settler‐colonial structure, has sidelined Indigenous interests in public policymaking since federation. In an attempt to redress this, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) was endorsed by the Australian government in 2009. UNDRIP is an authoritative international standard that could inform the ways
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Decoding the algorithmic operations of Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Georgia van Toorn, Terry Carney
In recent years, Australia has embarked on a digital transformation of its social services, with the primary goal of creating user‐centric services that are more attentive to the needs of citizens. This article examines operational and technological changes within Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) as a result of this comprehensive government digital transformation strategy. It
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Training and supervision of disability support workers: Perspectives of NDIS participants using unregistered providers Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Raelene West, Sophie Yates, Helen Dickinson
Training and supervision of disability support workers (DSWs) has, in most developed countries, been the primary means of supporting quality of service, adequate worker skill and prevention of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of both service users and DSWs. However, in Australia, there is no requirement for DSWs to obtain a minimum level qualification. This paper examines service user perception
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Beyond job‐search theory: A value pluralist approach to conditionality in Australian employment services Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Simone Casey
This article examines the contested impact of financial sanctions on Australian employment services, with government evaluation relying on job‐search theory to justify sanctions while research from sociological and psychological perspectives suggests they exacerbate labour market disadvantages and poverty. The division in perspectives reflects both methodological differences and ethical stances within
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Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Sally A. Larsen
Standardised tests of academic basic skills are an established feature of contemporary Australian schooling. Assessment results are widely reported and directly influence educational policymaking. Furthermore, Australian national educational priorities are linked to educational system accountability via the results of standardised tests. Given the influence and importance of assessment data, this paper
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Varieties of digitalisation? A comparison of employment services digitalisation in the UK and Australia Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Jo Ingold, Chris Forde, David Robertshaw
This article examines the digitalisation of employment services in the UK and Australia, countries that have been on similar policy trajectories with respect to the development of quasi‐markets and increased digitalisation. The article deploys comparative mixed methods comprising surveys of employment service providers and interviews with providers and technology developers in both countries to analyse
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Guest editors' introduction to special issue on corporal punishment of children in Australia Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-04 Carys Chainey, Sarah Whittle
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Australian women's motherhood aspirations: I've always wanted to be a mum. But at the same time, I wanted the career and everything too Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Megan Bugden, Hayley McKenzie, Lisa Hanna, Melissa Graham
To better understand the discrepancy between women's motherhood aspirations and outcomes, this study explored the impact of socio‐cultural structures of gender. Taking a qualitative phenomenological approach, interviews were conducted with 24 Victorian women aged between 25 and 45 years. Three themes resulted from data analysis, reflecting the meaning women gave to their lived experiences: Motherhood
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Linguistic diversity and emergency health alerts: A systematic critical review Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Raelene Wilding, Natalie Araujo, Jessica Velásquez Urribarrí, Tonya Stebbins, Linda Whitby, Emma Koster
Australia is a world leader in providing valuable resources that support multilingual access to healthcare services. However, the COVID‐19 pandemic revealed that these resources are not always effective in ensuring that linguistically diverse citizens have access to information in a crisis. In this paper, we consider whether authorities around the world have implemented effective approaches that might
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High stress, high demand and high pressure: Experiences of social work and human services agencies during Melbourne's COVID‐19 lockdowns Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-21 Betty Haralambous, Ronnie Egan, Patrick O'Keeffe, Sobika Baskarathas, Emily Heales, Caroline Jerono, Scott Thompson
The COVID‐19 pandemic has created major challenges globally. The social work and human services profession has been required to rapidly respond to policy and social changes. This research aimed to understand how the pandemic has affected social work and human services staff within Melbourne, Victoria. In this paper, we analyse the practice and policy implications of these responses, and outline learning
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Health selection into employment in a family health and time use context Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Tinh Doan, Liana Leach, Yixuan Zhao, Lyndall Strazdins
Using nationally representative data from Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia, this paper examines the impact of poor health, family impaired health and family time on the labour market participation of couples aged 25–64. We address sample selection bias and endogeneity bias by employing instrumental variable Tobit models. Our findings indicate that health selection into the labour market
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Working toward reunification in New South Wales: Professional perspectives on navigating complex systems Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Susan Collings, Meredith McLaine, Sarah Ciftci, Betty Luu
Achieving timely “permanency” for children after statutory child removal has become a key policy driver internationally. In New South Wales, child protection reforms include prioritising reunification; introducing time frames for resolution of legal proceedings; and outsourcing a substantial proportion of casework to the non‐government sector. In assessing the viability of reunification, courts place
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On (not) being literate enough: The literacy experiences and literacy programme needs of people experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homelessness Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Benjamin Hanckel, Alan Morris, Keiko Yasukawa
This paper is focussed on literacy and the literacy experiences of people who are experiencing homelessness or are at risk of homelessness. Drawing on 23 in-depth interviews with people who have lived experience of homelessness in Sydney, Australia, the paper examines literacy, literacy needs and interest in literacy programmes from a social practice perspective of literacy. Amartya Sen's (1999) capability
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Researching effective practices to reduce youth homelessness and disadvantage from a young person's perspective: A systematic review Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Delia Rambaldini‐Gooding, Lynne Keevers, Narelle Clay, Lisa MacLeod
Pathways into and the impact of homelessness on young people have been extensively explored. There is less emphasis on young people's perspectives of the interventions designed to assist them to avoid or exit homelessness. This study undertook a systematic review of the youth homelessness interventions literature that included the perspectives of young people experiencing these interventions. Our review
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The complementary impacts of nurse home visiting and quality childcare for children experiencing adversity Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Huu Nghia Joey Nguyen, Fiona Mensah, Sharon Goldfeld, Rheanna Mainzer, Anna Price
Australian Governments are increasingly understanding the impacts of early adversity, evidenced by ongoing policy and investment in two of the most widely implemented early interventions: nurse home visiting (NHV) and early childhood education and care (ECEC). Neither intervention fully redresses the developmental inequities engendered by early adversity, yet their synergistic impacts (“dynamic complementarity”)
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Codesign in Indigenous education policy and practice—A systematic literature review Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Marnee Shay, Grace Sarra, Jo Lampert, Daeul Jeong, Amy Thomson, Jodie Miller
Codesign is an increasingly common term in Indigenous education policy settings. However, it is unclear exactly what it means and how it is enacted. This systematic review examined 15 papers relevant to codesign in the context of Indigenous education, clearly distinguishing between codesign as a process and a method. These papers provide a snapshot of the various ways codesign is conceptualised, enacted
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Perspectives on the ongoing impact of compulsory income management in the Northern Territory Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Steven Roche, Natalie Taylor‐Zach, Robert Taylor, Philip Mendes
Since 2007, income support recipients in the Northern Territory (NT) have been subjected to compulsory income management (CIM), a form of welfare conditionality which continues, despite the withdrawal of CIM from other locations in Australia and research that identifies negligible benefits. Implemented with the goal of improving social well‐being and health outcomes, CIM quarantines a proportion of
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Misconceptions about corporal punishment in Islam Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Mohammed Shafiq, Akhtar Munir, Sarah Little
Early Islamic scriptures mention the use of corporal punishment parenting strategies to rectify behaviour in children. However, many Islamic scholars strongly warn against employing corporal punishment as a discipline strategy. This discussion paper aimed to examine the misconceptions surrounding the use of corporal punishment as a parenting strategy in religious teachings and explores the sociocultural
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Food insecurity: Discrepancy within Australian couple households Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Jane M. Fry, Jeromey B. Temple
Food security remains a global public health priority but there may be bias in the prevalence of household food insecurity, depending upon who answers the questions. Using a cross-section from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, we analysed components of food insecurity reported separately by both partners in 718 households, allowing examination of discrepancies among
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Justice reinvestment—Local solutions for young people in contact with the criminal justice system, but should more be done? Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Leigh Haysom
Justice Reinvestment aims to prevent young people coming into contact with the criminal justice system through place-based, data-driven and evidence-based community solutions developed through community-based leadership and partnerships. The initiative also advocates for strategic changes to the justice system, with any savings reinvested into successful community programs. This paper will discuss
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Disability, employment and welfare reform: A comparative analysis of Australia and Denmark Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Gyu-Jin Hwang, Natasja Koitzsch Jensen, Dinesh Wadiwel
From the poor-relief tradition to the social citizenship-based development of the welfare state, the question of available social supports for people with disability has been one of the central issues of welfare reform agendas. Under the increasing influence of neoliberal rationalities, many welfare states have engaged in the redefinition of capacity and incapacity to work in an attempt to manage the
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Fairness perceptions of income‐based educational inequality: The impact of social class and ideological orientations Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Jung‐Sook Lee, Meghan Stacey
Income‐based educational inequality is a global issue. In Australia, schools in the relatively large private sector charge a range of fees, with public schools also exhibiting considerable income differences. Using a nationally representative sample in the Australian Survey of Social Attitudes, we examined the public's fairness perceptions of income‐based educational inequality and how their fairness
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Public narratives of disadvantage across multiple groups in Australia: A research map and practice reflections Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Peter Bragge, Simon D. Angus, Alex Fischer, Alyse Lennox, Alex R. Piquero, Tim Reddel, Liam Smith, Lucas Walsh, Rebecca Wickes, Abby Wild, Nicholas Faulkner
This paper provides the first known “heatmap” representing Australian public narratives across a range of groups experiencing disadvantage developed from a comprehensive literature review of primary Australian studies between 2020 and 2021. Eleven narratives were identified across 14 population groups with the most frequent being deficit narratives, misrepresentation of the issue and ‘absent’ narratives
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How does the media represent institutional child sexual abuse within Jewish communities? A case study of the Malka Leifer court case Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Philip Mendes, Marcia Pinskier, Susan Baidawi
Concerns about institutional child sexual abuse within Jewish communities have been documented in two recent national enquiries into child sexual abuse, in Australia, and England and Wales. Yet to date, there has been little analysis of how media reporting informs public awareness of these concerns, and potential programme and policy responses. This paper examines media reports of the high-profile
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Intergenerational financial assistance with home ownership: Considering the potential for financial elder abuse Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Julia Cook, Peta S. Cook
Intergenerational financial assistance with home ownership has attracted increasing scholarly interest in recent years. Existing research has focussed primarily on its impact on inequality, housing market outcomes and notions of meritocracy, as well as the relational dynamics through which it is negotiated. The topic of financial elder abuse has, however, remained an area of relative silence in this
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Mothers and sportsmen: The gendered and racialised nature of role model selection for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander youths Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Michael Andre Guerzoni, Jacob Prehn, Huw Peacock
This article seeks to understand who Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children select as role models, and the reasons underlying these choices. Drawing data from Wave 8 of the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children, it comprises a sample of 307 children (169 male and 138 female) aged between 10.5 and 12 years at the time of data collection. Content analysis was used to analyse survey responses
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Positive behaviour support under the National Disability Insurance Scheme in Australia: Barriers, enablers and support needs from the perspective of practitioners Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Alinka Fisher, Kymberly Louise, Katrina Reschke, Peter Kremer, Glenn Kelly
This paper examines the experiences of behaviour support practitioners providing positive behaviour support (PBS) under the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), including perceived barriers and enablers of practice, and ongoing support needs. It reports on data provided by NDIS PBS practitioners (n = 392) in a cross-sectional mixed methods survey employed to examine the characteristics
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Cutting more than meals: Increasing severity of food insecurity is associated with the number and types of household financial strategies used to cope with inflation Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Ami Seivwright, Sebastian Kocar, Denis Visentin, Katherine Kent
Food insecurity is a prominent social determinant of health. There is evidence of increasing food insecurity in high-income countries amid inflationary pressures. Yet, we know relatively little about the strategies that people employ to manage food insecurity nor how the severity of food insecurity affects the use of these strategies. Accordingly, this study of a nonprobability convenience online panel
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Supports desired by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males in fatherhood: Focussing on the social and cultural determinates of health and well-being Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Jacob Prehn, Michael Andre Guerzoni, Huw Peacock, Mick Adams, Bhiamie Williamson, Len Collard, Kootsy Canuto
In Australia, there is insufficient exploration and understanding of how we can strengthen the critical role played by Indigenous fathers. This paper argues that for Indigenous fathers to feel supported in childrearing, greater attention must be given to their social and cultural determinants of health and well-being. To gain insights into the challenges experienced by Indigenous fathers and the support
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“Not just a new house”: The complexities of undoing institutional practices and identities in transitions to community living Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Amanda Howard, Lou Johnston, Emma Tseris, Pam Joseph
While scholarship regarding the promises and challenges of deinstitutionalisation is expansive, less is known about deinstitutionalisation within the context of contemporary neoliberal disability policy frameworks. This article reports on a study exploring recent transitions from institutional to community living within the context of the highly contested National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
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Health-Poverty Inequality in Australia from 2001 to 2018 Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Dajung Jun, Matt Sutton
While established measures gauge poverty across diverse aspects of life, a definitive metric for health poverty in Australia remains absent. This study examines health poverty trends, identifying priorities for interventions to improve overall population health. We define health poverty as the state of falling below a specified minimum threshold in any critical health aspect, encompassing physical
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Sticky places for regional immigrant settlement: A literature review Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Leena Bakshi, Fiona Haslam McKenzie, Julian Bolleter
Since 1996, migration-related schemes have directed new immigrants, refugees and humanitarian entrants to regional Australia to mitigate the need for skills and declining population growth in these locations. However, a key concern of these schemes is the uncertainty of long-term immigrant retention in regional locations beyond the stipulated visa category period. We draw on the metaphor of stickiness:
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Cultural care and Aboriginal land rights in New South Wales Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Heidi Norman
An appreciation of Aboriginal land rights in New South Wales (NSW) is characterised by two dominant narratives. One is that land rights are central to achieving and advancing recognition of and support for the existence and survival of Aboriginal peoples in the settled spaces of south-eastern Australia. In this view, Aboriginal land rights realise intrinsic political power. The second dominant narrative
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Child, parent and contextual factors associated with child protection system involvement and child maltreatment in the family: A rapid evidence review Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-25 Daryl J. Higgins, Gabrielle R. Hunt
Child abuse and neglect in the home is a prevalent and significant issue in Australia. Recent findings from the Australian Child Maltreatment Study revealed that 62.2 per cent of participants had experienced at least one type of maltreatment during childhood, with most reporting multi-type maltreatment. This rapid evidence review was aimed at understanding factors associated with child abuse and neglect
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How has the media framed the introduction of the supervised injecting room in Victoria? A comparison of editorials of The Age and Herald Sun 2017–2022 Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-09 Philip Mendes, Robert Taylor, Steven Roche
Influenced by a harm reduction philosophy, the then Victorian Labor Government announced the establishment of the state's first medically supervised injecting room (MSIR) in North Richmond in late 2017. But, public and political opinion remains sharply divided as to the merits of the MSIR. One influence on policy development appears to be media commentary on the MSIR and the wider illicit drugs policy
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Attitudes toward demographic diversity in 16 advanced economies: Perceptions of conflict matters more than income Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-09 Mohsen Joshanloo, Joonha Park
This study provides a comprehensive analysis of several factors that potentially contribute to attitudes toward demographic (i.e., racial, ethnic and religious) diversity in 16 advanced economies, using data from a recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center in 2021 (N = 16,254). Specifically, the study aimed to examine 12 potential covariates of anti-diversity attitudes, using Bayesian multilevel
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“I hope you aren't becoming woke”: New politicised contours of online ableism in response to disability advocacy by 2022 Australian of the Year Dylan Alcott Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Raelene West, Belinda Johnson
Ableist hate speech regularly appears in online comment-enabled articles on social media, whenever disability-related topics enter public discourse. In 2022, Dylan Alcott's appointment as Australian of the Year as a person with disability was widely celebrated. Despite this progress, we identified new forms of politicised ableism in online responses to his disability advocacy in this role. This research
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Responding to COVID-19: How group model building can assist the health and well-being of urban Indigenous communities in Australia Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Bronwyn Fredericks, Abraham Bradfield, Sue McAvoy, James Ward, Shea Spierings, Troy Combo, Agnes Toth-Peter
In this paper, we discuss a rapid-fire study involving Indigenous and non-Indigenous stakeholders from the urban Indigenous health sector who collaborated to produce an “Urban COVID-19 Systems Map.” The map outlines the behaviours, actions and responses that stakeholders identified as mitigating or exacerbating COVID-19 risks in urban Indigenous communities. Data were collected and analysed during
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The prevalence of corporal punishment in Australia: Findings from a nationally representative survey Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Divna M. Haslam, Eva Malacova, Daryl Higgins, Franziska Meinck, Ben Mathews, Hannah Thomas, David Finkelhor, Sophie Havighurst, Rosana Pacella, Holly Erskine, James G. Scott, David Lawrence
Corporal punishment is associated with adverse outcomes; however, little empirical data exists about the state of corporal punishment in Australia. This paper presents the first national prevalence estimates of experiences of corporal punishment during childhood among Australians and its use as adults by Australian parents and caregivers. We also report community beliefs about the necessity of corporal
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Prohibition of corporal punishment and alternative justifications for the lawful use of force against children in Australia Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Elizabeth Dallaston
The prohibition of corporal punishment in Australia will require reform of the criminal law of assault to abolish defences in each Australian state and territory that permit the use of force on children for the purpose of punishment. This paper highlights the anomaly of those defences by undertaking a comparative doctrinal analysis with other Australian criminal law principles that excuse the use of
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The normalisation of sexual violence revictimisation in regional and rural areas: Our failure to respond Australian Journal Of Social Issues (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Emily Corbett, Jennifer Power, Jacqui Theobald, Lee Edmonds, Kate Wright, Leesa Hooker
Sexual revictimisation has devastating consequences for victim/survivors, yet there is limited research exploring women's experience of revictimisation in regional/rural areas. Using a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach, this paper reports on a qualitative study that employed a material feminist lens and Nixon's theory of “slow violence” to explore women's lived experiences of sexual